WEB: CD Packaging

In terms of handing in my web brief for the design for web part of Design Production (504) I'm thinking I'll hand it in on a CD with the website root folder on it with all the website contents inside. It gives me a chance to present the website in some physical form for module submission.I want to create a paper case that's different from the bog standard cd sleeve. Some examples I've found of what's possible with CD packaging...My favourite is the...

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Lecture Notes: Cities & Film

helen.clarke@leeds-art.ac.ukCities & FilmThe lecture looks at modernism in the city. Urban sociology. The city as a public and private space, the city in postmodernism.  And the relation of the individual to the crowd in the cityGeorg Simmel German sociologist. Wrote 'metropolis and mental life' in 1903. Influenced critical theory of Frankfurt school thinkers, people like Walter Benjamin, Kracauer, Adorno etcPresented pioneering analyses...

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Seinfeld on Facebook - Panopticism

This is actually a scene from the 90s sitcom, Seinfeld regarding the social system of an answering machine, but as the video title suggests, it is uncannily similar to a lot of our user experiences with Facebook. I find the social dynamics of social networking very interesting, and thought it was relevant to post as I covered the relationship between Facebook and Panopticism in a previous post.It's interesting because we sign up to this sort of social measure, no one forces it upon us but forces around us push us to document our lives and basically...

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Study Task 3: Panopticism

Following on from the lecture and seminar on Panopticism, I'm going to look into Panopticism deeper, particularly in regards to the text 'Panopticism' in Thomas, J. (2000) 'Reading Images', NY, Palgrave McMillan. A modern example of panopticism in my opinion is social networking websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, I'm going to correlate my theory with quotes from the text to hopefually back up my form.What's interesting about modern social networking is we sign up to this willingly, no one forces us to. This is a contrast to early...

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Verbal Acrobatics: Motion posters

Found some cool examples of animated posters which I feel help me to get an idea of what's already out there in terms of posters which at first glance look pretty standard but have an animated layer to them too.http://www.reviewstl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Ignition_Saw3d.swfMost of them tend to flash .swf files which I find a bit sluggish, wouldn't a high quality .gif be better and less annoying? I was planning on converting my printable posters...

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Verbal Acrobatics: Visual references

I'm already a big fan of Berlin based studio, Hort - some of their work nearly nails the vision I had for my posters for the print + web musical typography I'm working on. Especially in terms of layout, handwritten aesthetic and colour palettes.Each poster will be unique to the artists sound, existing visual styles such as album covers and message and tone within the song.Animated posters too, i intend to animate the elements within the posters and...

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Japanese culture

Found a pretty useful website which answers a lot of questions about Japan: http://japanexplained.wordpress.com/Notable points moving forward:Facial hair is uncommon and quite frowned upon in Japan, bushy beard is usually a sign of radical politics, if not actually communist party membershipBlonde gaijin women are seen as exotic and exciting, most Japanese women are naturally brunetteJapanese adverts are very risk averse, often just with a face ofg a celebrity endorsement and not the product itself.No pressure on people to do educational stuff...

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D&AD: Western Posters over in Japan

I've been checking out stuff taken from the Western world, in terms of products/movies etc and see how they translate and appeal to a Japanese audience. It's interesting to see how the layout changes and the balance of Japanese/English changes, sometimes some English elements still remain even though the audience is Japanese. It's good to know this as I'm doing the same for Ted Baker, moving from a Western and predominantly British audience to J...

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